TAUNTON — Any confusion about a planned marijuana growing facility in the city should be cleared up at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

A hearing petition for a special permit, submitted by Taunton attorney David Gay, includes a letter of recommendation from Planning Board chairman Daniel Dermody.

In his letter, Dermody noted the February vote by the board to recommend new use of what is now a vacant 90,000-square-foot building at 30 Mozzone Boulevard, located in an industrial zone.

The City Council held preliminary talks this past week on whether to issue a special permit for a medical marijuana growing facility as part of a pre-review hearing. Some councilors expressed concerns about the feasibility of the project despite assurances by Gay’s client, John Greene, CEO of Greeneway Wellness Center — the nonprofit granted a “provisional license” by the state’s Department of Public Health to operate a medical marijuana dispensary in Cambridge.

Greene, who owns and operates a Marshfield herbal-product company called Adaptonic, originally applied with the state for a license to operate a combination pot dispensary and cultivation facility in the Silver City. Instead, the DPH issued a provisional license for a Taunton dispensary to competitor Medical Marijuana of Massachusetts Inc., a nonprofit run by former Congressman William Delahunt. MMM has plans to open a dispensary on Revolutionary Drive in Liberty and Union Industrial Park.

A special permit application submitted in January by Greene to City Planner Kevin Scanlon specifically refers to a medical marijuana dispensary. There is no mention of a cultivation, or growing, operation.

This week’s council agenda packet, along with letters from Scanlon, Dermody, the city’s conservation commission, engineering department and Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant, refers only to a request by Greeneway for a special permit for a dispensary that does not include a cultivation center.

City Clerk Rose Marie Blackwell said the discrepancy is not a result of an error in her office. She said the wording reflects the original application filed and the version of two newspaper notices placed in ads to alert abutters to the proposed project.

“I’m not allowed to change it,” Blackwell said. “That’s the way I got it.”

Council President A.J. Marshall said he will make a motion requesting that the permit application be altered to reflect the true nature of the project as a cultivation, and not a dispensary, facility.

Marshall said he has not yet decided whether to vote in favor of the Greeneway project. He said he looks forward to hearing from police Chief Edward Walsh about the owner’s plans for security measures at the site.

Marshall, however, said he agrees with Greene, who last week declined to discuss details of security measures in an open forum. To do so, he said, would be risky.

Page 2 of 2 - A letter submitted last September to DPH Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett by Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr., in support of the Greeneway dispensary proposal, notes that Walsh “has found their security and business plan acceptable for our community.”

But Sherry Costa Hanlon, who was one of six councilors to submit letters of support to DPH, said she initially thought the original proposal for Taunton was for a combined cultivation and selling facility.

She said she is not pleased that DPH used her letter to ultimately boost Greeneway’s chances of opening a dispensary in Cambridge.

“That makes absolutely no sense,” she said.

Costa Hanlon also said she’s disappointed that the number of jobs Greene said will be created in Taunton has dropped from 40 to 60 for a dispensary to 20 to 30 for a cultivation center.

She also said she has serious security concerns. She said the likelihood of a robbery — either of the building or an armored car picking up pot for transport to Cambridge — will be higher if there is no steady flow of customers visiting the site.

Marshall, however, disagreed, saying that he doesn’t “follow the logic” of that premise.

Daniel DaRosa, owner of B&D Construction, bought the building and real estate for $2.3 million in October 2013.

DaRosa said the building — which has been empty for at least two years since Independent Nail moved out — will once again be put to good use by having the dual tenants of Greeneway and the WeCare Organics trash recycling plant, the latter of which will utilize the other half of the building.

Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. says he is not perturbed that Greeneway’s proposal ended up as a cultivation operation that is not combined with a medical pot dispensary. Hoye also noted that voters in the state overwhelmingly approved the establishment of medical marijuana facilities.